N.J. towns where property taxes hurt the most

Editors's note: Due to a data error, an earlier version incorrectly included the towns: Upper Deerfield, Sea Bright, Asbury Park, Manchester, Berkeley and Keyport.

Property taxes are generally considered a regressive form of taxation, which means that it accounts for a greater share of a low-income person's pay than a high-income earner's.

NJ.com has shown you where property taxes are the highest and the lowest. The list of the top 15 shows the New Jersey municipalities where the property tax bite, as a portion of income, is the biggest.

About 150 of the state's 565 municipalities were excluded from the analysis. The margin of error in some small towns was too high because of the American Community Survey's small sample size.

14. Montclair

The average property tax bill in Montclair is the highest on the list, at $17,779. That's about 18 percent of the median income, $90,907 a year, which is also the highest of the 15 municipalities.

13. Prospect Park

The average property tax bill here is just under $10,000 a year, or $9,984. That's 18.4 percent of the median income, $54,241.

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12. Union City

This densely populated exurb of New York is seeing some spillover as Jersey City and Hoboken swell. But the median annual household income is $40,939. The average property tax bill, $7,561, cuts into that by 18.5 percent.